tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7139473519887786408..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: A survey of the works, feats and deeds of the new Billy ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47052497832265629762015-08-05T18:34:58.035+10:002015-08-05T18:34:58.035+10:00Ahhh...the Hunting of the Snark reference: what I ...Ahhh...the Hunting of the Snark reference: what I say three times must be true. The Bellman had a clearer vision for the crew than Mr A has for Australia, the LNP or for himself. He has a map...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-73131681617681469302015-08-05T16:50:26.027+10:002015-08-05T16:50:26.027+10:00Hollywood got there before us and made a film abou...Hollywood got there before us and made a film about Australian politicians rorts way back in 1959!<br /><br />Attack of the Giant Leeches!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek43qsMoiUwAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-23961770242713989792015-08-05T16:30:15.801+10:002015-08-05T16:30:15.801+10:00Peter Abetz, WA MP and brother of Erica says Nazi ...Peter Abetz, WA MP and brother of Erica says Nazi war criminal Great Uncle Otto did some 'positive things' (as well as mere trifles such as deporting tens of thousands of French Jews to death camps). And I understand Adolf loved dogs and was a vegetarian, so he can't have been all that bad. And according to the Mitfords had a great sense of humour.<br /><br />The Abetzs also have a family connection to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel who was a cousin to their mother's father. Abetz said Rommel was an "interesting character".<br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/peter-abetz-says-nazi-war-criminal-great-uncle-otto-did-some-positive-things-20150805-giry7o.html<br /><br />And note that Fairfax have tagged this as 'entertainment'.<br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/peter-abetz-says-nazi-war-criminal-great-uncle-otto-did-some-positive-things-20150805-giry7o.html#ixzz3hv30YA85<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-23621363682624238542015-08-05T15:03:57.174+10:002015-08-05T15:03:57.174+10:00Now that I think about it, he rivals Menzies I. Or...Now that I think about it, he rivals Menzies I. Or perhaps the impact of Fadden. Titans of politics.AuldBrixtoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40426824677208674852015-08-05T10:11:27.823+10:002015-08-05T10:11:27.823+10:00True, his main contribution to the Howard governme...True, his main contribution to the Howard government was to continue the downhill slide of health, and for his day job to continue on as an attack dog. Getting down into the dirt to do over the Hansonites is where his real Santa heart belongs ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-56976526663002236492015-08-05T10:09:05.870+10:002015-08-05T10:09:05.870+10:00Once a Philistinian, as Victor Mature would say, a...Once a Philistinian, as Victor Mature would say, always a Philisitinian ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-22158854760989837492015-08-05T09:32:11.114+10:002015-08-05T09:32:11.114+10:00Actually, Billy McMahon was better. He had a long ...Actually, Billy McMahon was better. He had a long career as a senior Minister in which he displayed enough competence and achievement to warrant the mistake of choosing him. The same can't be said of Abbott, who has always been useless. You have to go back past Bruce to Reid or Cook to find one as bad as Abbott.AuldBrixtoniannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-3229355329662576742015-08-05T08:57:57.308+10:002015-08-05T08:57:57.308+10:00From today's editorial in The Age -
Mr Abbott ...From <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/tony-abbott-must-rise-above-politics-and-act-on-constitutional-recognition-20150804-girfri.html" rel="nofollow">today's editorial in The Age</a> -<br /><i>Mr Abbott has to show his true colours on this issue. For whom does he want change? This is not a matter of playing to different audiences. He has, if he wants to be judged a true leader, to take himself out of the politics.</i><br />Abbott change, DP, take himself out of politics?<br />There may be a test of Abbott's ability to metamorphose out of the Santamaria bovver-boy cocoon. Remember this, from Quarterly Essay 48 2012, a letter from Brandis about Abbott?<br /><i>There is one particular memory of Tony Abbott at Oxford which sticks in my mind, as fresh as if it had happened yesterday, although it was thirty years ago. It was the summer vacation of 1982. I was heading off on a trip through Russia, and I knew that Tony had just been there. We ran into one another on the High Street one morning and chatted away. I remember saying how much I was looking forward to seeing the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad and various other cultural treasures. He looked at me sceptically. I asked him what he had thought of the Soviet Union. "Mate," came the reply, "mate, it doesn't have a single redeeming feature."</i><br />The Hermitage expo is on at the NGV. Turnbull will go, with bells on. Brandis will sneak in, disguised, through a side door. If still true to his homunculus form, Abbott will not only give it a miss, but will let it be known that any front-benchers who visit will be in strife. <br />Henderson and Sheridan may nose along to the NGV, but have they air-brushed Brandis's recollection out of their recent writings? Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.com